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<h2>US Senate Votes on Clarence Thomas Confirmation</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>Votes in the US Senate on Clarence Thomas nomination for the US Supreme Court
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<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A data frame with 100 observations on the following 6 variables.
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<dl>
<dt><code>State</code></dt><dd><p>State name</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Senator</code></dt><dd><p>Senator name</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Party</code></dt><dd><p>Party affiliation (<code>D</code>=Democrat or <code>R</code>=Republican)</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>ConfVote</code></dt><dd><p>Confirmation vote (<code>Nay</code> or <code>Yea</code>)</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>StateOpinion</code></dt><dd><p>Percentage of state residents supporting the choice</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>Vote</code></dt><dd><p>Numeric coding for vote (<code>1</code>=for or <code>0</code>=against)</p>
</dd>
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<h3>Details</h3>

<p>Data from the U.S. Senate vote on October 15, 1991 to confirm Clarence Thomas to a position on the Supreme Court.
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<h3>Source</h3>

<p>These numbers are taken from Kastellec, J.P., Lax, J.R., and Phillips, J. (2010), &quot;Public Opinion and Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court Nominees,&quot; Journal of Politics, 72(3): 767-84. In this paper the authors used opinion polls and an advanced statistical method known as multilevel regression and poststratification to determine the StateOpinion levels.
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